CULIN (Stewart). Chinese games with dice. Philadelphia, s.n., 1889. In-8, interesting paperback with lined cover devoted to Chinese dice games, to be read before the Oriental Club of Philadelphia, March 14, 1889. Copy enriched with a signed autograph letter from the author to Natalis Rondot. (cracks on spine) Provenance: Natalis Rondot French economist, art historian and silk industrialist, Natalis Rondot was delegated by the Reims Chamber of Commerce to represent France in China during an extraordinary mission to negotiate trade treaties from 1843 to 1846. During this trip, Natalis Rondot became interested in Chinese, Japanese and Indochinese cultures, their silk-working techniques and learned Chinese. On his return, he made a decisive contribution to the development of Lyon's silk industry in the 1850s. Appointed by the Chamber of Commerce in 1856, he founded the Musée d'Art et d'Industrie de Lyon, the future Musée Historique des Tissus, which he inaugurated in 1864.